| ▲ | SubiculumCode 7 hours ago |
| I don't believe they can change the name to Department of War without an actor Congress. It remains the DoD. |
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| ▲ | drewda 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yes, it's officially still the Department of Defense. If this were a news outline writing "Department of War" I would be concerned. But in the case of the Anthropic CEO's blog post, I can understand why they are picking their fights. |
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| ▲ | yomismoaqui 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I first read about DoW on a post by Anthropic and thought it was some kind of jab to the government. |
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| ▲ | fancymcpoopoo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Well I think we have an actor congress |
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| ▲ | hirvi74 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | He is just a symptom. The problem is far deeper and more severe than just him. |
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| ▲ | miltonlost 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's a silly shibboleth, but I automatically ignore anyone who calls it the Department of War or Gulf of America. Hasn't steered me wrong yet. They're telling me they're the kind of people who only care about defending fascism. |
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| ▲ | aveao 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I call it department of war, because I think it is a great self-own on their part to do such a rename. | | | |
| ▲ | mostlysimilar 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I think it's worth giving people a tiny bit of grace on this. I've surprised people by explaining that the "Department of War" is just fascist fanfic and that the legal name has not changed. It's a testament to the broken information ecosystem we're in that many people genuinely don't know this. Most will correct themselves when told. I agree with you that those who don't are not worth engaging. | |
| ▲ | AntiDyatlov 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Google Maps calls it Gulf of America, pretty difficult to ignore Google. | | |
| ▲ | input_sh 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Only in America, in the rest of the world Google calls it "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". | | | |
| ▲ | neoromantique 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://s3.gtw.lt/lUew91t6v5AO2u6mAPCXAFME.png Depends where you at | |
| ▲ | davidw 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Because Google are bootlickers. | | |
| ▲ | sixothree 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | They literally complied with this request immediately and without question. | | |
| ▲ | pirate787 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's almost like the democratically elected government gets to decide the name, not Google! | | |
| ▲ | Fogest 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | People like democratically elected governments... until it's not their side. | |
| ▲ | monooso 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's almost like the democratically elected Congress gets to decide the name, not the President! (Spoiler: it's still legally called the Gulf of America) |
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| ▲ | SpicyLemonZest 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I would not defend all of Google's decisions in the Trump era, but complying immediately with politicized name changes has always been the status quo. Even in healthy democracies, the precise names of geographic features can be extremely controversial, and no sane company wants to get in a debate with the Japanese government about the real names of various islands. |
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| ▲ | galleywest200 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I ignore Google quite easily. Besides, as soon as Trump is out they will change the name back. |
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| ▲ | arduanika 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They can, however, rename their Twitter/X accounts and vacate the @SecDef handle, which seems to be up for grabs now, if anyone wants to do the funniest thing... |
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| ▲ | stackghost 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I tried to grab @SecDef just now, they appear to have it blocked/internally reserved | | |
| ▲ | arduanika 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Huh. Maybe they just do that automatically when a verified account renames itself, to keep the old one reserved? Who knows. | | |
| ▲ | stackghost 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I got a "something went wrong" error and then it auto assigned me @SecDef48372 or something similar. Sad. |
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| ▲ | testing22321 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Or all the stupid shit this regime has done, this is the most sane. They want the department to fight wars. At least they’re being honest. |
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| ▲ | TylerE 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Except they don’t, because fighting a war requires congressional approval. |
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| ▲ | yodsanklai 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Of all the silly things that Trump did, I think this one is the most reasonable. This has always been a department of war. Calling it defense was propaganda. |
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| ▲ | hyperhello 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Calling it Department of The Armed Forces or Department of Military would be neutral. Putting War in the name is as propaganda-like as Defense. | | |
| ▲ | dabluecaboose 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | After it was changed from DoW the first time (in 1947), it was called the National Military Establishment (NME). They renamed it in 1949, potentially because "NME" said aloud sounds like "Enemy" |
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| ▲ | Loughla 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Gulf of America and department of war are nothing but propaganda and dick measuring. Prove me wrong please. |
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